Tweet This week I attended Bloomberg’s annual energy conference, and the audience favorite seemed to be the keynote by Bloomberg New Energy Finance CEO Michael Liebreich. If you’re interested in the trends of global finance going into clean energy and energy efficiency, it’s a must watch. Here’s the video: Watch this video for free on GigaOM Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial….

Tweet Companies larger than 1,000 employees appear to be a bit further ahead of smaller companies when it comes to adopting cloud computing. Of those larger companies, 77 percent have adopted clouds in some way, compared with 73 percent for companies with fewer than 1,000 employees, according to a recent survey of 625 business, development and IT staffers from cloud-management provider RightScale. The interesting area is the rise in the…

Tweet LivingSocial, the Washington D.C.-based daily deals company, has been suffered from a hack that could have affected the data of more than 50 million customers, AllThingsD first reported Friday based on an email obtained from CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy to employees. The email said that LivingSocial had experienced “cyber-attack on our computer systems that resulted in unauthorized access to some customer data.” A LivingSocial representative confirmed the hack with us, and said…

Tweet Michael Cherry, and analyst for Directions on Microsoft, has slammed Microsoft’s strategy for Windows 8.1, saying that new (or returning) features are irrelevant when the apps “suck.” Read more… Neowin

Tweet Tweets have the power to decimate markets, but they also have users and companies seeing dollar signs. With huge marketing, political, and social mobilization potential, how can you predict which tweets will get more views, and which retweets will go viral? A new study developed a statistical model that attempts to estimate the popularity of tweets, and thus how memes spread. Starting with 52 “root” tweets from users both famous and…